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...winning personality as the main reason for his popularity. (Translation: You're so dumb, you've been had.) Gore trails by 37 points in Texas, and he sure wasn't there figuring to snag the state's electoral jackpot. The message was for the other 49 - look at this mess! Look at these suckers! "The presidency," he said at an insta-forum in the land of the Alamo, "is not a popularity contest...
...says it right on the bumper sticker: Don't Mess With Texas. As Gore threw rocks from afar, Texas Monthly publisher Michael Levy quickly announced the till-November formation of the Proud of Texas Committee, a small "truth squad" of the state's bright lights worried about their image. "During this campaign, as in many others, I have observed that facts sometimes get bent or broken in reporting on a state as large and varied as Texas," said one member. "We want to keep the information that is disseminated about our state honest from now until...
...however, to keep black Oklahoma congressman J. C. Watts on the running-mate list. And speaking of racially based calculations: another hopeful just struck off the veep roster, one supposes, is Christine Todd Whitman, though for different reasons. The New Jersey governor sunk further into her own racial-profiling mess when a photo of her, gleefully frisking a black man on one of her ride-alongs with the cops, hit the papers Tuesday in full glory...
Where preretirees really mess up is in continuing to contribute to a tax-deferred variable annuity, often billed as the next best thing to a 401(k). Sam Beardsley, head of T. Rowe Price's tax department, says that in virtually every scenario he ran, investing in straight taxable funds late in your savings years produced more retirement income than a tax-deferred annuity. Other studies suggest that you need at least 20 years of accumulation before a tax-deferred annuity makes sense...
...speaking from the left and, for the last 30-odd years, from the right. He has defended America against attacks from both left and right. He has always sought, by means of his writing and editing, to do what Whitman dreamed of doing with his poem - sort out the mess, make it coherent, whole...